Alert archive / Colorado / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1995, 4:55 PM MDT for Weld County, Colorado. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 1995, 4:55 PM MDT (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1995, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Weld County, CO
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 125 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -351 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1321 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 11:00 AM MDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before
COZ015-030>050-230600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 1100 AM MDT THU JUN 22 1995 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COLORADO COUNTIES ADAMS ARAPAHOE BOULDER CLEAR CREEK DENVER DOUGLAS ELBERT GILPIN GRAND JACKSON JEFFERSON LAKE LARIMER LINCOLN LOGAN MORGAN PARK PHILLIPS SEDGWICK SUMMIT WASHINGTON WELD SYNOPSIS: WINDS WILL BE CIRCULATING COUNTER-CLOCKWISE AROUND A LOW PRESSURE CENTER IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO. THIS PUTS EASTERLY TO NORTHEASTERLY WINDS OVER NORTHEASTERN COLORADO. MOISTURE WILL BE AMPLE FOR AT LEAST SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS. MOST LIKELY THESE STORMS WILL OCCUR EAST OF THE FRONT RANGE URBAN CORRIDOR. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY. HOLZINGER
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 11:02 AM MDT, 5 hours 53 minutes before
COZ015-030>050-230600- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 1100 AM MDT THU JUN 22 1995 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COLORADO COUNTIES ADAMS ARAPAHOE BOULDER CLEAR CREEK DENVER DOUGLAS ELBERT GILPIN GRAND JACKSON JEFFERSON LAKE LARIMER LINCOLN LOGAN MORGAN PARK PHILLIPS SEDGWICK SUMMIT WASHINGTON WELD SYNOPSIS: WINDS WILL BE CIRCULATING COUNTER-CLOCKWISE AROUND A LOW PRESSURE CENTER IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO. THIS PUTS EASTERLY TO NORTHEASTERLY WINDS OVER NORTHEASTERN COLORADO. MOISTURE WILL BE AMPLE FOR AT LEAST SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS. MOST LIKELY THESE STORMS WILL OCCUR EAST OF THE FRONT RANGE URBAN CORRIDOR. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY. HOLZINGER
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 3:59 PM MDT, 56 minutes before
COZ034>035-038>039-042>043-222300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 359 PM MDT THU JUN 22 1995 AT 355 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ON THE WYOMING/COLORADO STATE LINE 7 MILES NORTH OF ROCKPORT...OR ABOUT 32 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT COLLINS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN NORTHWEST WELD COUNTY...AND EASTERN LARIMER COUNTY. ALL THE STORMS HAVE BEEN MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH A WEAK WEATHER DISTURBANCE IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE. EXPECT STORMS TO CONTINUE DEVELOPING OVER THE NORTHERN FRONT RANGE AND MOVING NORTHEAST INTO WELD AND ADAMS COUNTIES THROUGH 530PM...AND EASTWARD AFTER 530PM. SOME STORMS THIS EVENING WILL BECOME SEVERE. RTG LAT...LON 3994 10512 3998 10567 4099 10495 4101 10461
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 4:01 PM MDT, 54 minutes before
COZ034>035-038>039-042>043-222300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 359 PM MDT THU JUN 22 1995 AT 355 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ON THE WYOMING/COLORADO STATE LINE 7 MILES NORTH OF ROCKPORT...OR ABOUT 32 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT COLLINS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN NORTHWEST WELD COUNTY...AND EASTERN LARIMER COUNTY. ALL THE STORMS HAVE BEEN MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH A WEAK WEATHER DISTURBANCE IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE. EXPECT STORMS TO CONTINUE DEVELOPING OVER THE NORTHERN FRONT RANGE AND MOVING NORTHEAST INTO WELD AND ADAMS COUNTIES THROUGH 530PM...AND EASTWARD AFTER 530PM. SOME STORMS THIS EVENING WILL BECOME SEVERE. RTG LAT...LON 3994 10512 3998 10567 4099 10495 4101 10461
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 6:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 33 min |
| Jun 21, 7:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 26 min |
| Jun 22, 4:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Douglas, Elbert | 35 min |
| Jun 22, 4:50 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Douglas, Elbert | 25 min |
| Jun 22, 5:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Weld | 53 min |
| Jun 22, 5:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Arapahoe, Douglas | 36 min |
| Jun 22, 5:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Denver | 36 min |
| Jun 22, 5:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Sedgwick | 36 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.